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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorabangdb.comcassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.bangdb.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestkairosdb.github.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20152012200820132014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.1.3, July 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononouser defined functions
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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